Dear Pianistimo

[m1469]

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Remember when we used to think about running away from home and living in that old abandoned shack ?


Remember that time you fed me dirt and mom got really mad ?


Hey, Pianistimo, have you ever watched a sunrise ?  I mean, have you ever gotten up just especially to watch it come up ?  Probably having lived in Alaska, it would be a little different there.  Did you perch yourself on a hill ?

Hey, Pianistimo, how do you do it ?  I saw your "help" thread, it made me a little sad.   But, tell us, how do you do so much ?  Don't worry pianistimo, don't worry....




HI HI  HI....


*singing* .... don't worry pianistimo... don't be worried pianistimo.... not to fear pianistimo... it's all going to work out, pianistimo.... you're in good hands... pianistimo... pianistimo.... pianistimo...




m1469  (the pink water lily)

[pianistimo]

dear mayla, the pink waterlilly,

why do you worry about me so?  i think you would have been true blue childhood  friend to eat dirt at my suggestion.  but, i don't think of you like a little sister.  probably a cohort in piano antics, though.  (do i personally know you? - you make me think of diana - whom i did run away with in fourth grade for a day).   

the best sunrise i ever saw was when i drove straight through the night and into the wee hours of dawn in arizona.  when the sun came up there, it was spectacular.  usually, i don't get up to watch the dawn.  in fact, i leave all the shades down so noone sees me.  this really irritates my husband, who claims he can't see with all of them closed.

i don't normally perch on hills, but i have been known to read the national geographic in the bathroom (i won't say where).  ok. this is how i get it all done.  i act really nonchalant (like i dont care if anything gets done) and just take one small thing at a time.  today it was the kitchen floor.  it's really clean now, but the counters aren't.  my problem is that i CAN'T get everything done at once.  so, don't worry anymore. 

i  left at 4pm for my class tonight.  it was blissful - because i've had many things to do over the summer and no time for just me.  so, i went and listened to piano concertos.  will i ever play any.  i don't know.  but i want to play at least one - soon.  the problem is, i have to listen to quite a few to accurately determine which one i want to learn. 

mayla,  please tell me more about your secret life.  i think you're having too much fun.  how can you have time to ask questions about my life?  and, still make money.  and do everything you do?  you are doing more than me, i just talk a lot.  but, i have learned to be quick about things.  i mean, it doesn't take all day for me to do certain chores (other's - like laundry, it does). 

you know my best secret to getting things done.  unplug the phone.

 

[m1469]

Dear pianistimo,

he he... let's see... I ran away for one day, when I was in 3rd grade, with my friend Jan (are you secretly her, and me Diana ?).  We got caught playing with matches (we were cooking peanut butter over a our little red brick oven).  We packed a duffle bag full of underwear and took off together on her banana seat bike, with a couple of coins to our name... then we hid behind a bush for hours as we watched our mothers drive around looking for us... then we went home.

I swept my floors just yesterday, and vacuumed too.  It was big day.  I even finally caught the little mouse who had been trying to eat all the flour...

summer walks and piano concertos... it's a great combination.  you'll play, you'll play...

My secret life ?   how can I have time to ask questions about your life?  and, still make money.  and do everything I do?   Well... I am a multitasker, just like many people.  Sometimes, I just get tired of thinking about some stuff, and trade with other stuff.

A man in Mississippi was in his house during the storm when it tore in half and his wife got swept away.  He hadn't found her yet and he was besides himself....

"where have all the flowers gone ?"

I have been thinking about singing again...

Thanks for your contributions about Mozart cadenzas, it's amazing really, all your work.


m1469 (the pink water lily)

[pianistimo]

dearest mayla,

just like you, i love music, so i'm just doing what i like.  my teacher in music history last semester thought i was just average, so i'm not out to impress anyone.  you really have to work hard to get an 'A' in those classes.  you have to find primary sources (written usually at or around the time of the composer) instead of secondary sources (written by people who knew @ 3rd generation - and passing on info. like a piece of gossip - often something is wrong!)  i mentioned journals, but what you can get from journals is source ideas (at the back of the article).  THEN, you go to the primary sources you find. 

of course, the internet is MUCH easier but often, (as my teacher said), wrong.  because it is a secondary source.  you have to take information with a grain of salt.  and, prove or disprove with other sources.  this take s A Lot of time.  so, much of what we thought we knew, or thought we understood, is really from a long line of misnomers that we keep perpetuating until we meet a musicologist.

i am jealous of your multi-tasking abilities.  that is why i have to be quick.  i cannot concentrate on more than one thing at a time.

terrible terrible about the man who lost his wife in mississippi.  thus "where have all the flowers gone...", to me, means somebody's dead.  they get flowers, but someone steals them off the grave because they need them for someone else.  too many dead!!  the best way i remember deceased people in my family is to think about them when they were alive.  they'll never see the flowers anyway.  if i was rich, i'd probably put flowers out - but many of the burial plots are thousands of miles away from me.

God compares it to being stuck in a room for a while.  "come my people, enter into your rooms..."  since He can ressurrect us from nothing (since he made us from the dirt in the first place).  i think of my dear old grandfather who probably was purposely cremated to see if God could fix that one!  especially if the ashes are scattered.  what a shocking thing to be ressurrected!  because all bodies decompose anyway and nothing is usually left after a few years either way.  unless, you want to be mummified. 

you're welcome about the cadenza info.  i realize now, it wasn't exactly what you had in mind (a whole research paper)...but rather maybe some tidbits of info to share.  that's probably all people can read on a computer screen anyway.  i mean it hurts your eyes to read more than two or three lines (especially if they are not double spaced). 

i singned school papers last night for an hour.  now, i have a sort of writer's cramp typing this.  must sign off.  have a good night, pink waterlilly.  (have you ever been in mikkado - that's your next singing role, ok).
 



     

[thalbergmad]

you girls are fascinating creatures.

[pianistimo]

snooping on us, eh, thalbergmad.   ok.  i've got other roles (in mikado) to fill.  you can be ko ko.  he's the one condemned to death for flirting and made 'lord executioner' of the town of titipu.  you have to wait for us (mayla and pianistimo) to sing our arias "three little maids from school."  then, you can make plans to marry yum-yum (we need a yum-yum, any volunteers?)  ok. bouter-boogie, paris, or pretty piano playing.  now, yum yum is secretly in love with nanki-poo (need a nanki-poo). 

heres the list of cast.  you may sign up for any one that isn't taken: m1469has first dib's on the soprano role with the most arias.  i'm not sure which one that is.  have to reread the operetta.

nanki-poo
ko-ko - thalbergmad
poo-bah
pish-tush-
yum-yum - bouter boogie
pitti-sing - pianistimo
peep-bo -
katisha

[abell88]

Many years ago I was in a trio that sang Three Little Maids at a kind of a talent show...we all dressed differently -- I was punk, and on my umbrella I had written "Anarchy Now" with masking tape -- and I sang, "Three little maids who all unwary, come from a ladies' cemetary"...it was fun.

[m1469]

Okay, abell88 needs a role.  How does peep-bo sound ?  Also, other people still need to sign up  .  Pianistimo might have to be in charge of casting, otherwise  .


Here is a site where you can find out more information about "The Mikado" (I have decided to actually learn about this opera now, he he) :

https://math.boisestate.edu/gas/mikado/html/


Now, I don't think there is a role in here for me  .  Personally I would rather play Carmen, he he, but we are not currently casting for that, now are we ? 


See you on the stage ...

[Torp]

https://math.boisestate.edu/gas/mikado/html/

I see you've been hanging around my alma mater

If there are any roles for a musical motorcyclist, count me in.

(I have hidden all my lollipops in case the horders break in on this thread too)

[m1469]

I see you've been hanging around my alma mater

Oh, he he, I just noticed since you brought it up.  Don't worry, I was not sleuthing in this case  .

If there are any roles for a musical motorcyclist, count me in.

Well, I think it might be worth creating a role such as this, just to witness you in action 

(I have hidden all my lollipops in case the horders break in on this thread too)

Most likely a very wise decision, and how very intuitive of you 



m1469 (the pink water lily)

[Torp]

Oh, he he, I just noticed since you brought it up.  Don't worry, I was not sluething in this case  .

Darn, and just when my ego was so certain

Well, I think it might be worth creating a role such as this, just to witness you in action 

Remember, I'm also an accountant; it might be quite boring.

Most likely a very wise decision, and how very intuitive of you 

m1469 (the pink water lily)

Ah, for once my intuition has served me well.